Professor Anna Munster
PhD, UNSW, 2002
BA, Class 1 Hons (University Medal) University of Sydney, 1984
Professor
Anna Munster has been at UNSW Art and Design since 2001 on a full-time tenured basis. She is an active researcher with two sole published books: An Aesthesia of Networks (MIT Press, 2013), and 听Materializing New Media听听(Dartmouth College Press 2006). She also edited and ( OHP Press 2019). Her current research interests are: statistical visuality and radical empiricism, the politics and aesthetics of machine learning, more-than-human perception, new pragmatist approaches to media and art,听new media art environments and ecologies; time, movement and sonicity.
Anna regularly collaborates artistically with Michele Barker. Barker and Munster have been working in multi-channel audiovisual environments exploring the relations between perception, movement and media.Their most recent work was the solo show,听听2019 for听Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney. In 2017, they were commissioned for a听multichannel audiovisual environment, pull, for , 2017鈥2020. They have been awarded New Work Grants, in 2012 and 2010 from the Australia Council for the Arts to realise their work. Other听 projects include:听听(2014),听(2011). Duchenne鈥檚 smile (2-channel DV installation, 2009), Struck (3-channel DV installation, 2007).
Anna is the lead CI and partnered with Adrian Mackenzie (Australian National University) on a 3-year ARC Discovery Project: ''. She is also currently a CI on the ARCDP 'The Geopolitics of Automation'. led by Ned Rossiter out of Western Sydney University. She is also a CI on the ARC Discovery Project "The Geopolitics of Automation" (2020鈥23) with Professor Ned Rossiter, Western Sydney University.
She was a partner in a large international project,听,听hosted by Concordia University, Montreal and funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada. She has held two ARC Discovery research grants in new media and art: 'The Body-Machine Interface in New Media Art from 1984 to the Present, 2003鈥5' and 'Dynamic Media: Innovative social and artistic uses of dynamic media in Australia, Britain, Canada and Scandinavia since 1990'.听听She was also an investigator on an ARC Linkage project, 'Australian Media Arts Database', which resulted in the national media arts database
She is a founding member of the online peer-reviewed journal and has co-edited two special issues on and . and on the editorial advisory board of听听Inflexions,听Convergence,听Scan and Screen Bodies, and Computational Culture.
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Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 鈥楾he Geopolitics of Automation鈥, Australian Research Council Discovery Project). Chief Investigators: Prof. Ned Rossiter, Prof. Brett Neilson, Prof. Anna Munster, Dr Liam Magee. ($464k)
Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 鈥楻e-Imaging the Empirical: Statistical Visualisation in Art and Science鈥, 2017鈥2020. Lead CI. ($177k)
Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada, 2013鈥2019, co-applicant, Australian leader,听Immediations Partnership Grant (Concordia University), Grant leader: Prof. E. Manning, 2013鈥2019 ($CA2.9million
Australian Research Council Linkage Project, 鈥楻econsidering Australian Media Art History in an International Context鈥, 2011鈥2015, CI听 ($232,000)
Australian Research Council Discovery Project, team leader and lead C1, 鈥楧ynamic Media: innovative social and artistic developments in new media in Australia, Britain, Canada and Scandinavia since 1990鈥, 2007鈥2010
Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 鈥楾he body-computer relation in new media art from 1984 to the present鈥, Lead CI, 2003-2005 ($90,000)
ARC, UNSW Student Council Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision, 2017
Dean鈥檚 Award, Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision, 2015, Faculty of Art and Design, University of New South Wales, Australia
鈥楬ighly commended鈥 for Materializing New Media in the Media Art Research award, Prix Ars Electronica Linz, Austria, 2008
Winner (with M. Barker) of National Digital Art Awards, 鈥淭he Harries鈥, dynamic category, 2006. Acquisitive prize听
Winner of University Press of New England Publishing Award 鈥楤est manuscript submitted for Interface Series鈥, 2005.听
My Research Supervision
- Monica Monin (PhD, practice-based) Coding Materialities (commenced 2014)
- Alia Parker (Scientia PhD, practice-based)听 Critical Bio-Textiles: Reconceptualising human-centred design through collaboration with mycellium (commenced 2020)
- Troy Rainbow, Schizophrenia and XR Technological representations (commenced 2019)
- Natasha Dubler, 'Sound, Resonance and Affect' (commenced 2021)
- Eva Nolan, 'Sight and Sightings: Affective Drawing' (commenced 2021)